A ROYAL NAVY NAVAL AVIATORS KOREA AND BORNEO LONG SERVICE GROUP TO LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER, WHO AS A LONG-SERVING OBSERVER, SPENT MUCH OF HIS FLYING CAREER IN ANTI-SUBMARINE HELICOPTERS

KOREA 1950-53, 1ST ISSUE ‘L/FX.895107 J. S. TURTON. N.A.1. R.N. REPLACEMENT’, U.N. KOREA 1950-54, UNNAMED AS ISSUED; GENERAL SERVICE 1962-2007, 1 CLASP, BORNEO ‘LIEUT. J. S. TURTON R.N. REPLACEMENT’, JUBILEE 1977, UNNAMED AS ISSUED.

John Stanley ‘Stan’ Turton was born in Liverpool in 1933 and joined the Fleet Air Arm as a rating in early 1951, being commissioned Acting Sub-Lieutenant (Observer) in 1959. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1961 and Lieutenant-Commander in 1970. He retired in April 1982.

An apparently chronological list of the ships and appointments in which Turton served accompanied his Navy News obituary notice. Besides numerous Naval Air Stations, it suggests he was aboard the carriers H.M.S. Glory for Korea (1952-53), and H.M.S. Victorious for Borneo operations during the 1960s. During the 1970s he operated in helicopter detachments aboard the destroyer H.M.S. Glamorgan, the helicopter cruiser H.M.S. Blake, and helicopter support ship R.F.A. Engadine. At the time of the Silver Jubilee in 1977 he was Commanding Officer of 820 Naval Air Squadron.

Condition EK to GSM, otherwise GVF. The two named medals both officially impressed replacements, both issued prior to 1976. Mounted as worn. Sold with a DVD of copied research.